Logophile/Mental Words

Question 1

Pilcrow

Answer 1

the name for the mark you might handwrite on a manuscript to show where a new paragraph starts

Question 2

Borborygmus

Answer 2

intestinal noise

Question 3

Funambulist

Answer 3

tightrope walker

Question 4

Struthious

Answer 4

referring to ostriches

Question 5

Callipygian

Answer 5

having beautiful buttocks

Question 6

Doryphore

Answer 6

a person who takes delight in pointing out the small mistakes of others

Question 7

Omphaloskeptic

Answer 7

those who engage in contemplative gazing at their own respective navels

Question 8

Noyade

Answer 8

mass drowning as a form of execution

Question 9

Defenestration

Answer 9

being thrown out a window

Question 10

Ucalegon

Answer 10

a neighbor whose house is on fire

Question 11

Mnemonic

Answer 11

memory or relating to memory

Question 12

Didactic

Answer 12

intended to instruct

Question 13

Erudite

Answer 13

learned or scholarly

Question 14

Judicious

Answer 14

exercising good judgement, prudence

Question 15

Immemorial

Answer 15

things whose existence literally or figuratively outlives memory

Question 16

Polymath

Answer 16

someone who really knows a lot, in many different fields

Question 17

Obliterate

Answer 17

wiping the memory of something

Question 18

Empirical

Answer 18

a student guided by practical experience or observation rather than by precepts or theory

Question 19

Obfuscate

Answer 19

to make something confusing or difficult to understand

Question 20

Ratiocination

Answer 20

the process of using a logical, carefully reasoned thinking process